Literary Agent Hypothesis: Difference between revisions

* [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[Space Trilogy]]'' begins with, then discards, the trope. The epilog to ''[[Out of the Silent Planet]]'' reveals that the protagonist ("Elwin Ransom") is a friend of Lewis's, who asked him to publish the work; Lewis changed the names of all the characters (including the protagonist) because the villains are alive and powerful (and, one presumes, quite capable of suing for libel). Lewis is a minor character in the beginning of the sequel ''[[Perelandra]]'', but in that book it is specifically noted that "Ransom" ''is'' the protagonist's name. By the third book, ''[[That Hideous Strength]]'', events have carried the series far beyond the real world, and Lewis discards the "literary agent" pretense entirely.

* Played with in [[Philip K. Dick]]'s short story "Waterspider". The protagonists decide to fix a technological problem of their era by time-travelling into the past, the golden age of precognatives, and consulting with the precog whose paper "Night Flight" foresaw their very predicament: [[Poul Anderson]]. The reader eventually realizes that the "precog society meeting" is actually a [[Science Fiction]] convention--it turns out that all the major SF authors were precogs without realizing it, and were accurately predicting the future in their writings.

 

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